Go Green: Leave Your Car Behind

"This final seminar in the City of Burlingame’s series, "Go Green: How to Make Your Home and Your Life More Sustainable," features the SFBC’s Andy Thornley suggesting practical ways to reduce your automobile habit to help promote a healthier, more sustainable world (and pocket the savings, to boot). Includes free bike map of Burlingame. Refreshments will be served."

From sf-planning.org: Biophilic Cities and Green Cities of Nature April 17th, 2012, 12:00-1:00pm, at Room 431, Planning Department Timothy Beatley, professor of sustainable communities at the University of Virginia School of Architecture will speak about biophilic cities and green cities of nature highlighting examples from the US and beyond. Timothy’s work is focused on sustainable communities […]

Last month, we made an urgent appeal for your support because the future of Streetsblog San Francisco was in jeopardy. I’m happy to announce today that readers, advocates and business leaders responded, and we met our July 1 goal! Your contributions will keep Streetsblog SF moving forward in 2010. Our work is far from over, […]

From SPUR: The Sustainable Development Committee addresses issues related to local and regional climate policy, green buildings, waste and water infrastructure, energy policy and more. The topic of discussion on Monday, February 14th will be CALGreen, the new state green building code that went into effect on January 1. Join us for a comparison of CALGreenwith LEED and GreenPoint Rated, […]

From TransForm: Building Certification for Truly Transit-Oriented, Green Development Link for more information: http://www.lisc.org/content/calendar/detail/19647/ Location: https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do?udc=1xuz644othk7, Oakland, CA Transportation is increasingly being recognized amongst community development practitioners as a key component of building communities that are socially equitable and environmentally sustainable. Green building certification systems – such as LEED and the Living Building Challenge- are […]